Karl Anders Knutsson, Paolo Rama, Beatrice Tombolini, Carlo Di Biase, Carlotta Senni, Fabio Buffoli, Nicola Clementi, Marco Tonelli, Silvia Carletti, Nicasio Mancini, Giulio Ferrari, Giorgio Paganoni, Francesco Bandello
BACKGROUND: Beauveria bassiana is a filamentous fungus commonly used as an insecticide that rarely causes keratitis. METHODS: Patients affected by Beauveria bassiana keratitis were retrospectively recruited at San Raffaele Hospital (Milan, Italy) between 2020 and 2022. All subjects underwent comprehensive ophthalmic evaluation, including in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) and microbiologic examination of corneal scrapings. Beauveria bassiana was identified using 18S rDNA targeted PCR...
December 10, 2023: Journal of Clinical Medicine